Aston Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread

[Richard E]

Why do Man City need two team buses? Flash bastards.

[Lastfootstamper]

The boy's Christmas jumper day at school today. He hasn't got one that fits, so he's worn my Villa one, bells and everything. Apparently he was a very happy chap, walking up the road with a spring in his step and a hearty "Up The Villa!” for anyone and everyone en route.

[astonvilla82]

I didn’t notice it, but my lad said Walker at one point looked up to the heavens hands in the air and basically said what the hell is going on
It was a memorable night, I think there’s plenty more to come

The analysis over here pointed out how Walker was totally nullified by Emery's tactics.  Digne was pushed up so high he was basically on Walker most of the night.

Stones mentioned in his interview that they weren't able to build out from the back at all last night and they just never got any kind of momentum going. I guess the fact they didn't really have a midfield meant we could just kill them at the back and not have to worry about anyone getting it to Haaland.

You would have thought the great Messiah Pep would have overcome that problem

[Brazilian Villain]

Can't wait to see Pete the Canadians Holy Trinity 😆

still pissed on Canadian Club probably .   

Hopefully Crown Royal.

[Somniloquism]

Why do Man City need two team buses? Flash bastards.

In case they ever give Pep his marching orders, he doesn't have travel back on the same coach as the players.

[Nunkin1965]

Can't wait to see Pete the Canadians Holy Trinity 😆

still pissed on Canadian Club probably .   

What are the odds of Pete suggesting that Pep requires the services of Paul Hansaker & 24/7 services to plug those defensive gaps?

[JUAN PABLO]

Can't wait to see Pete the Canadians Holy Trinity 😆

still pissed on Canadian Club probably .   

What are the odds of Pete suggesting that Pep requires the services of Paul Hansaker & 24/7 services to plug those defensive gaps?

damn .  Ive got a leaking kitchen tap , thanks for the reminder .

least he aint orange no more .

[Risso]

My heart bleeds for Man City and their injury crisis. Imagine only having a bench with midfielders like Nunes (£53m), Phillips (£42m), Kovacic (£25m) and Gomez (£11m). The humanity!

[JUAN PABLO]

My heart bleeds for Man City and their injury crisis. Imagine only having a bench with midfielders like Nunes (£53m), Phillips (£42m), Kovacic (£25m) and Gomez (£11m). The humanity!

yet Id have our bench everytime.

[Toronto Villa]

It’s always someone else disadvantaged to help explain our wins. Spurs were fucked. We had no injuries of course. I’m sure it will be Arteta in the stands as the reason Arsenal take a beating this weekend.

[Dr Butler]

still fucking smiling here at work....

UTV
The Doc

[eamonn]

Anyone know if our Wes or our Nassef were in attendance last night? They must have been dreaming of January spending to fund the final tweaks in our treble winning season.

[Somniloquism]

Very telling that normally winning post-match threads have less comments then losing ones because there is only normally so much to say after a win. This one is approaching 30 pages on the default view in less then 24 hours.

[tomd2103]

I didn’t notice it, but my lad said Walker at one point looked up to the heavens hands in the air and basically said what the hell is going on
It was a memorable night, I think there’s plenty more to come

The analysis over here pointed out how Walker was totally nullified by Emery's tactics.  Digne was pushed up so high he was basically on Walker most of the night.

Looked like we were happy to let Walker have the ball to be honest.  Watkins, Tielemans and Bailey pressed the ball when the other three defenders had it, but not Walker.

Wonder if they'd seen something in analysis to suggest that Walker isn't as good with time on the ball or maybe it was trap to press Lewis when the ball was played to him. 

Either way, it looked a deliberate ploy and it worked a treat.

[AV84]

Stones mentioned in his interview that they weren't able to build out from the back at all last night and they just never got any kind of momentum going. I guess the fact they didn't really have a midfield meant we could just kill them at the back and not have to worry about anyone getting it to Haaland.

 You would have thought the great Messiah Pep would have overcome that problem

To be fair, their usual routine works extremely well for them, and with even one of the missing players in midfield they probably would have worked it out eventually last night.
 
What it does go to show though is that Haaland is not overhyped as such, but he's not the key to stopping Man City. You can sit 3 defenders on him all night and he'll still probably score if KDB or whoever is feeding him the ball all night. But if you cut off his supply he's not a miracle worker.